Sharing Your Faith on Their Level
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Sharing your faith with your children is one of the greatest privileges as a parent. The key is to share it in way they can understand. To help you do that, John and Danny give some helpful ideas for telling your kids about Jesus. Featuring Natasha Crain.
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| 0:00.0 | And the New Testament in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 18, Jesus said how our faith must become |
| 0:08.0 | like that of a child if we're going to enter God's kingdom. |
| 0:11.3 | I love that. And pointing your kids to Christ is one of the greatest |
| 0:14.7 | privileges of being a parent. I'm John Fuller along with my friend and |
| 0:18.8 | focus colleague Dr. Danny Werta and Danny if you can go back a number of years what what age were your kids were when they |
| 0:25.5 | started asking questions about God yeah it was early it was and really it was modeled |
| 0:30.5 | after what how we were engaging with God when we were praying they would ask well |
| 0:35.4 | what does Jesus look like and how does God listen to our prayers we take a |
| 0:41.6 | picture the other day and it started early. I think it was three, four, five in that range. I remember God speaking to me through my son at four in multiple ways and so I know that God uses those early years |
| 0:58.5 | to speak to us and to be able to relate more closely with God God but yeah kids start asking early and the |
| 1:05.1 | questions get harder as you go and the questions aren't a mark of they don't believe |
| 1:09.6 | or they're going to be doubters or they're not going to follow the faith. It's just a natural part of life. It's a curiosity and we shouldn't be threatened by that. |
| 1:18.0 | Let's go ahead and hear now from Natasha Crane. She talked with Jim Daly and me about how she's learned to share her faith |
| 1:24.4 | with her children. |
| 1:26.4 | Natasha, it's great to have you back here at focus. |
| 1:28.8 | Okay, thank you so much. It's great to be back. |
| 1:30.8 | You haven't always been, I a formal Christian apologist, but I like the |
| 1:36.8 | concept that parents need to become that so that they can pass their faith on to their children. |
| 1:43.2 | But it sounds intimidating. |
| 1:45.0 | So how and when, I guess, did you realize I don't have enough in the tank to really share |
| 1:50.8 | with my own children? |
| 1:51.8 | Well, this was the day where I look back and that was the aha moment for me of I don't know what I'm doing as a parent and I think we all have those moments at various times in our parenting but for me it's like this this picture in my mind of them lying on |
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